| York |Yorks. + | York (cell to Whitby) |Yorks. H. | York, St. Anthony’s |Yorks. H. |† York, St. Peter’s, alias St. Leonard’s |Yorks. [Illustration: Houses of the Black Monks (Benedictines and Cluniacs)] [Illustration: Houses of the Cistercians (White Monks)] [Illustration: The Carthusians and four orders of Friars at the time of the suppression] [Illustration: Houses of Regular Canons Black (Austin) and White (Premonstr{n})] [Illustration: Nunneries.] INDEX Abbot, mode of election of, 44; confirmation of election of, 47; installation of, 47; duties of, 40, 42; position of, as regarded his community, 48; position of, in choir, 49; his seat in cloister, 18 Abingdon, river tolls at, 81 Ablutions, morning, 118 ‘Accusations,’ at Chapter, 124 Aidan, St., Celtic apostle of North of England, 12 Ailesford Convent, 241 Aldgate, Christ Church _or_ Holy Trinity, 225 Alexander III. and the Crutched Friars, 246 Alien priories, 41, 218 Almoner, duties and qualifications of the, 90; presided over the monastic school, 93; superintended daily Maundy, 92; had to prepare Mortuary Rolls, 93 Altar, High, one of the most important parts of the church, 15; in charge of sacrist, 66; linen, care of, 67 Altars, side, 16 Andrew’s, St., on Cœlian Hill, Benedictine Monastery at, 217 Anthony, St., founder of Eastern monachism, 3; details of his system of monachism, 3, 4 Antiphoner, duties of, 110 Archivist, 64 _Armarius_, 61 _Ascetae_, 2 Ashridge, Convent of Bonshommes at, 249 Aske, Robert, and schools for girls, and nunneries, 163 _Asperges_, 132 _Aspersorium_, 132 Aubrey, John, recollections of, 154; account of nuns, 177 _Auditorium_, 32 Augustine, St., mission of, 214 Augustinian Canons, 225; in Ireland, 226 Augustinians in Ireland, 226 Aumbries for towels, 19 Austin Friars, 241 Barnstaple Priory, 218 Basil, St., his Rule, 7, 8 Baths, arrangement for, 103 Beaumont, Lord and Lady, 162 Bec, Abbey of, 186 Bedtime, hours of, 153 Bellringers, duties of, 208 Benedict, St., birth of, 7; Patriarch of Western Monks, 7, 213; and the _Opus Dei_, 13; his Rule, 8; the spirit of his Rule, 8 Benedictines, account of, 213; English, united into Congregations, 191 Benefactors, prayed for in Chapter, 127 Bermondsey Abbey, 218 Berno, abbot of Gigny, 217 Bethlemite Friars, 246 Bishop, relations with regular houses, 180; and monastic elections, 182; sometimes invited to appoint superiors, 184; visited alien priories, 185; blessing of abbots, 185; appointed coadjutors to incapable superiors, 188; privilege accorded to newly elected, 188 Black Canons, 226 Blood-letting, process of, 88 Bodmin Priory, 188